ILLUSTRATED and CONFIRMED. 



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" of hills which embrace it, one appeared to run in a diredlion 

 " towards the promontory of Teni-cheybr" (or Sigeum), " and 

 " the other towards the point of Jn-Tepe-Gheitlu" (or Rhce- 

 teum). The part of the hills to the right, reaching between 

 the villages of Jtcbe and Tchiblac^ appeared more cheerful than 

 the reft, and which he had no doubt compofed the Callicolone 

 of Homer. From this ftation he defcried " the iflands of Te- 

 " nedos and Imbros, Samothrace and Lemnos, the high top of 

 " Mount Athos, and the Thracian Cherfonefus beyond the Hel- 

 " lefpont." (Ch. IV.). As to the foil of the plain, he obferved 

 it Ko be " of a rich and blackilh colour, and of great fertility." 

 The village of Bounar-hajhi he reckoned to be " at the diftance 

 " of four leagues fr^m the fea," (Ch. XVII.). 



Mr Hawkins and Dr Sibthorpe took horfes at Koum-kaleh 

 on the coaft, and crofled the plain to the village of Bminar-hajh'i^ 

 in thrte hours, " an extent,*' fays Dr Sibthorpe, •" of nine 



)N, 



" miles*." Mr Hawkins, in his fecond letter to Mr Lisxor 

 affures him that Tenedos is to be feen from the hill of Troy, 

 and that even " the whole coaft of the ifland is vifible, from the 

 " northern to the fouthern point." 



Dr Dallaway remarks, that " the whole plain of Troy, 

 " from the height faid to have been the citadel, is of uninter- 

 " rupted extent," (p. 346.). From the promontory alfo of Te- 

 ni-chey.hr ^ or Sigeum, at its lower extremity, the fame intelligent 

 traveller looked over the plain, the whole fcope of which he 

 commanded. " Its broadeft diameter," fays he " may be five 

 " or fix, and its longeft twelve miles to Atche-keuy. It is natu- . 

 " rally verdant and fertile, and now very generally cultivated, 

 *' excepting near the marfh, wliich occupies a fifth part." 

 (p. 347.)' This I take to be the marfh at the mouth of the Si- 

 mois, of which afterwards. 



The. 



* See their Letters, Appendix, No. V. 



